Colorimetric polymer-metal nanocomposite sensor of ammonia for the agricultural industry of confined animal feeding operations

Optical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Sarkisov, Sergey S ^a   Czarick, Michael ^b   Fairchild, Brian D ^b   Liang, Yi ^c   Kukhtareva, Tatiana ^d   Curley, Michael J ^d  

^a SSS Optical Technologies LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ammonia sensor; indicator dye; metal nanocolloid; optoelectronic chemical sensor; organic nanocomposite; polymer nanocomposite

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA SENSORS; ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS; COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION; NANOCOLLOID; PHOTOACOUSTIC GAS ANALYZER; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMER-METAL NANOCOMPOSITES; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS;

ANIMALS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; SENSORS;

AMMONIA;

EID: 84888357112     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.53.2.021107     Document Type: Article

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